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My friend showed me this video yesterday... What an awesome goal. It's too bad the standard of soccer in the US sucks. I woul love to see talented players like this.

It will take some, most dominant countries have been playing soccer for more than 100 years.

btw I live in an aparment complex, most people here are working class.

Interesting to see a group of kids playing around.

about 6 boys and one big girl.

2 of the boys are white, 3 are black and 1 is mexican.

for the most part they are playing american football or soccer, its funny to see them going at each other, sometimes im cleaning my room and watching them from the window running around playing ball.

this is greenwood south carolina, soccer is nothing in this state, these kids are doing what they see on tv or youtube.

now you should see california on a weekend, soccer games everywhere and it doesnt matter what race you are. all the parks are packed with people of all ages playing soccer.

point is, soccer will be main-stream in the next 20 years or so, more money will be involved with MLS and then we will have those Ibrahimovics or Barotellis scoring sick azz goals, but it will take some more time, once we get studs to stick to soccer and not to leave for football or basketball in high school and college... thats when the real zhit is going to be on American soccer.

Amazing goal by Ibra, but he is not in the same category as Messi and CR7. Those two occupy a tier completely above any other footballers. Ibrahimovic can certainly be considered in that next tier, and you could make the argument that he has/had the potential to be alongside Messi/CR7, but he's simply too lazy and inconsistent to belong to their tier.

Amazing goal by Ibra, but he is not in the same category as Messi and CR7. Those two occupy a tier completely above any other footballers. Ibrahimovic can certainly be considered in that next tier, and you could make the argument that he has/had the potential to be alongside Messi/CR7, but he's simply too lazy and inconsistent to belong to their tier.

you know, one of my colombian friends posted on facebook that Messi may be th best player ever in the history of the game because he scores a lot of goals

with that logic, Valdez is the best gk in the history of the game bc he doesnt get scored a lot

he hasnt win a european championship yet but technically he is somewhere in between messi and ronaldo, physically he is an animal.

No, not even close. I like Ibra but he disappears in big games. He doesn't step up in European championships and never has done much in the Euros or World Cup. I don't he has even done much in the CL. I know it's a team game but he disappears in tournaments.

I like Ibra's skills. That goal was fantastic! To cap it off, it was his 4th goal of the game. So give Ibra credit. He is a great player. However, he is not close to Messi or Ronaldo. They are much better all around players but Ibra can score (as long as it's not in a tournament).

I joking said that Ibra FINALLY scored against an English team - an ALL English team (I don't think he had ever scored against an EPL team in competitions - see my comments about his tournament play above).